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Dean Nelson’s Next Chapter: Family, Philanthropy, iMasons and Startups

By Rich Miller - July 10, 2019 Leave a Comment

Infrastructure Masons founder Dean Nelson speaks at the group's member summit last year. (Photo: Rich Miller)

Industry veteran Dean Nelson has departed Uber, and is starting a consulting business that will make more time for his family, philanthropy, and Infrastructure Masons.

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Google’s Kava Looks to Take Data Center Sustainability to the Next Level

By Rich Miller - June 24, 2019 Leave a Comment

Joe Kava, who heads the data center operation at Google, is honored as the Infrastructure Masons 2019 Sustainability Champion at the recent Datacloud Congress in Monaco.

Google’s Joe Kava receives the Infrastructure Masons 2019 Sustainability Champion award, vowing that Google will become even greener, and challenging the entire data center industry to join the effort.

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iMasons: Do Older Data Centers Have a Future?

By Rich Miller - June 26, 2018 Leave a Comment

Infrastructure Masons founder Dean Nelson interviews entrepreneur and philanthropist Michael Tobin (right) during the group's recent meeting in Monaco. (Photo: Rich Miller)

Do aging data centers have a future? Can they be repurposed for new applications. The Infrastructure Masons debated the topic at their recent Think Tank in Monaco.

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Smart Cities: A Platform for Urban Transformation

By Rich Miller - May 4, 2018 Leave a Comment

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The technology to enable smart cities is close at hand, but political and cultural challenges will take longer to resolve. That was the key takeaway from a Think Tank on smart cities at the Infrastructure Masons Leadership Summit.

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In iMasons Talk, Scott McNealy Reflects on Sun, Open Source

By Rich Miller - April 30, 2018 2 Comments

Former Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy, speaks at the Infrastructure Masons Leadership Summit in San Jose. (Photo: Ross Marlowe for Infrastructure Masons)

Former Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy reflected on the legacy of Sun, its role in the open source movement, and the power of culture and education in a talk at the recent Infrastructure Masons Leadership Summit.

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Infrastructure Masons Creates Data Center Ratings System

By Rich Miller - April 20, 2017 Leave a Comment

Infrastructure Masons founder Dean Nelson speaks at the group's member summit last year. (Photo: Rich Miller)

The Infrastructure Masons are creating a data center ratings system to offer details on every aspect of a data center’s performance, the group said this week.

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Infrastructure Masons: Data Centers Can Be Faster, Sexier

By Rich Miller - November 18, 2016 1 Comment

The Infrastructure Masons leadership team: From left: Jeremy Rodriguez , Ty Schmitt (Dell), Dean Nelson (Uber), Joe Kava (Google), Rob Roy (Switch SUPERNAPs), Peter Gross (Bloom Energy), Eddie Schutter (eBay), Tom Furlong (Facebook). Not pictured: Jim Smith (Microsoft) and Christian Belady (Microsoft). (Photo: Rich Miller)

Career development and faster networks were key themes discussed this week by Infrastructure Masons, a group that brings together the largest data center builders to chart a course for the cloud economy.

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